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Ethics, Also Known As Moral Philosophy Is A Branch Of: Philosophy Morality Good and Evil Virtue Vice Justice

Ethics is the branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality and concepts like good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, and justice. It studies what is right and wrong in order to discover general principles to determine what people ought to do in all cases. Unlike laws and social norms, ethics provides guidance even when rules have loopholes or do not explicitly prohibit certain actions, as people can find ways around rules but not principles of right and wrong.

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Ethics, Also Known As Moral Philosophy Is A Branch Of: Philosophy Morality Good and Evil Virtue Vice Justice

Ethics is the branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality and concepts like good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, and justice. It studies what is right and wrong in order to discover general principles to determine what people ought to do in all cases. Unlike laws and social norms, ethics provides guidance even when rules have loopholes or do not explicitly prohibit certain actions, as people can find ways around rules but not principles of right and wrong.

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Ethics, also known as moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that addresses

questions about moralitythat is, concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong,
virtue and vice, justice, etc.
Ethics is not the study of what is legal or socially accepted or tolerated; it is the
study of what is right and wrong -- in the sense of trying to discover reasonable
general principles that will help us decide what we ought to do and what we ought
not to do in all cases. Most people think that obeying the law and company policy or
following the Golden Rule is sufficient. But laws and policies have loopholes and are
often incomplete. In many high schools, the handbook of rules grows thicker and
thicker each year because students are most creative at figuring out what wrong
things no one has thought to make a rule against in the past. The rules grow in
response to such creativity, but they will always be behind because you cannot
create rules that will anticipate every possible bad act. There are many legal
activities that are not morally right to do.

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